Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett

Profile & Legacies Summary

1785 - 1857

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Father of Charles John Moulton Barrett (q.v.) and of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (q.v.). Son of Charles Moulton and grandson of Edward Barrett (q.v.). Married Mary Graham, daughter of John and Arabella Graham (after 1786, Graham-Clarke) of Newcastle (q.v., under John Graham Clarke).

There is lack of clarity at present about the transmission of ownership of the estate to Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett, whom the compensation records showed to be tenant-for-life under the will of 1798 of Edward Barrett. The estate was already shown in 1795 as in the possession of 'Edward Moulton Barrett' 'a minor', but Edward Barrett Moulton did not take the additional name Barrett until his grandfather was writing his will, and equally Cambridge was held by Edward Barrett at the time he made his will in 1798.